Logline: Living with his wife and child in a trailer while working as a janitor, Stephen King struggles with alcoholism and his own dark history as he attempts to complete Carrie.
John Zaozirny
Based on the true story of Madonna in 1980s New York as she struggles to get her first album released while navigating fame, romance, and a music industry that views women as disposable.
Logline: Set in a future where population growth is strictly controlled, a “broker” guides a young mother and her baby to a safe zone, in exchange for information that will allow him to enact a long-awaited revenge.
Logline: Based on the true story of Madonna in 1980s New York as she struggles to get her first album released while navigating fame, romance, and a music industry that views women as disposable.
When a self-dubbed psychic medium and charismatic charlatan who is kidnapped by an emotionally unhinged man. But the ruthlessly celebrity-seeking showman decides to use the situation to his advantage, with devastating repercussions.
Logline: A look inside the tortuous drama of Donald Trump’s first Manhattan real estate deal, his relationships with troubled older brother Freddy and famed fixer Roy Cohn, and how they all created the Trump of today.
Logline: Returning to their childhood home after their mother’s death, a brother and sister discover their mother had a dark past as an exorcist. That past was what killed her — and now it’s coming for them as well.
Paradigm and Benderspink are out with a hot new action-thriller with serious franchise potential, and it’s officially into the first round of territories, with more soon to come…
Logline kept under wraps, but being pitched as a contained action thriller in the vein of Argo meets Bourne.
Gleefully terrifying the locals of her small town as serial killer “The Misfit Butcher,” 13-year-old Emily Derringer becomes annoyed when a new killer comes to town and residents begin attributing his sloppy murders to the Misfit Butcher. In a macabre coming of age, Emily must deal with her competition alongside all the more normal trials and tribulations of junior high school life.
A slick corporate investigator with a closely guarded secret discovers a sinister criminal conspiracy in North Dakota oil boom country.
The first 2015 Launch Pad Pilot Writer has been signed! Ben Kawaller wrote the current Top 25 Semi-Finalist The Next Best Thing. His dark comedy tells the story a middle-aged gay man facing the fallout of his longest relationships when he chooses to start dating women for the first time since realizing he was gay.
Pitched in the vein of Insidious, Let The Right One In, and The Others. Having moved into a “clean house” to treat his auto-immune disorder, 11-year-old Eli begins to believe that the house is haunted. Unable to leave, Eli soon realizes that the house, and the doctor who runs it, are more sinister than they appear.
Having moved into a “clean house” to treat his auto-immune disorder, 11-year-old Eli begins to believe that the house is haunted. Unable to leave, Eli soon realizes that the house, and the doctor who runs it, are more sinister than they appear.
Logline: Kept under wraps, follows the adventures of the classic character that steals from the rich and gives back to the poor in Sherwood Forest.
In December 1944, an American POW must escape a notorious German prison and make it to the Allied front line to stop a Nazi operation that will turn the tide of the war.
“6 Souls” writer goes out with a new horror spec!
Logline: In a not-so-distant future, an escaped convict finds himself caught between a pair of warring gangs when he’s hired to protect tomorrow’s most precious resource: a drug that gives the user the ability to instantly heal from physical damage.
Logline: A young man mysteriously begins to receive metallic capsules containing messages from his future self.
Logline: A young man mysteriously begins to receive metallic capsules containing messages from his future self.
Logline: Logline kept under wraps, but pitched in the vein of SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY meets GONE GIRL and GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATOO.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: Pitched as “Children of Men†meets “The Raidâ€- In a future where victims of a contagious virus are locked away in huge quarantine towers, a black-market courier discovers his latest package holds the key to stopping the virus.
Logline: A prison warden must engineer the escape of a cartel leader from his prison after the warden’s wife and son are kidnapped.